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and that all rats found therein shall be killed and burnt, and
the grain or place disinfected.
7. In areas under observation or infected areas the
Collector or plague officer may, when he considers necessary,
enter upon any premises, whether situated in a municipality
or not, at any time during daylight and summarily execute
any work required under, or summarily abate any of the
nuisances described or indicated in, sections 186, 220, 221
and 228 of the District Municipalities Act, 1884, or sections
99 and 101 of the Local Boards Act, 1884.
8. In an infected area the Collector or plague officer may
order that any shed used for accommodation of animals and
likely to harbour rats shall be closed and shall not be
reopened without his permission.
9. In an infected area the Collector of the district may
prescribe that no person undertaking for hire the cleansing
of clothing or other laundry process shall store or wash or
otherwise deal with clothing except at such places and at
such times and under such conditions as he may direct.
10. (a) In an infected area the Collector, or a plague officer
with the previous sanction of the Collector, may order the
evacuation and disinfection of infected houses and houses in
their neighbourhood, or generally of any infected locality; and
no person shall re-occupy such house or locality without the
express permission of the Collector or plague officer.
(b) The Collector, or plague officer, may require the
evicted people to reside in such place as he may appoint under
such restrictions as he may deem necessary.
(c) The Collector, or plague officer, may make such
arrangements as he thinks fit for the custody, free of charge,
of the effects of persons so evicted, provided that the Govern-
ment shall not be responsible for any loss or damage to them.
Explanation.-Houses and localities in which plague-
infected rats have been discovered may be treated as infected.
11. In infected areas the Collector, with the previous
sanction of Government, may organize search parties to visit
houses for the purpose of detecting cases of plague, when there
is reason to believe that the residents are attempting to
conceal them:
Provided that houses shall be allowed to be entered only
by persons of the same caste or religion as the occupants and
that women should be employed in examining women and
searching any room or place exclusively occupied by them.
12. (a) Every person leaving an infected area within the
Presidency by rail from a notification station shall take out a